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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Southeast Asian Context
James J. Spillane, S. J.
BACKGROUND TO CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)
Recent media reports on corporate corruption, fraud, poor governance, and environmental and social mismanagement have eroded much of the faith held in companies by a broad range of constituent parties. Society wants to better understand what companies are doing—how they are improving or damaging lives and the environment—what they are doing to ensure that resource use and business operations are set-up for the long haul. This is certainly true in Southeast Asia (SEA), geographically one of the largest and most populated areas of the world. Stretching from Vietnam in the east to Burma in the west, it has ...
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